about me
Jimmy Carter once said, “Wherever life takes us, there are moments of wonder.” The wonder of the life that I know has taken me to many places and paths, based solely on the fact that I never really knew what I wanted to do with my life. Sometimes, life can even take you into moments of assurance. My love in life is the world of history, especially that of the modern South and social history (Civil Rights Movement). And, life has brought me to the very moment of getting into it full-scale: graduate school. Never in my life would I have ever imagined that I would come to this chapter. In the initial years of my college career, I grumbled as I attended classes, choosing to sleep in more than study. Of course, my grades reflected such, with the exception of politics, art and art history, where my interest has never deterred. Either way, involvement in historical research of these areas has also initiated a deep concern for social justice and political equality, that I will probably fight until the day that I die. I did return to school, and graduated. It only took me a little longer than everyone else. I even had a semester of grad school, but my opportunity to move on to bigger and better things trumped it.
I left Alabama, where I have been all of my life, and moved to Washington, D.C. (or just a half-block outside it) in May 2006. I worked inside a political affairs division of a bi-partisan trade association, and tried to justify my move and aim for graduate school in the area. As fortune would have it, I returned to Birmingham in May 2007 to finish graduate school and to focus on urban history, with hopes to return to Washington, D.C. once I've graduated (or at least to fulfill my promises to the graduate program director to not leave again until I've graduated). While it's criticized for all it is, Alabama has it's perks: the 'blue dots' that I've seen around the city keep me optimistic that maybe everyone will see the light… at some point.
